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Abstract:
The debate focuses on the challenges and strategies that have been encountered in efforts to preserve collective housing, seen as a major issue in the contemporary sustainable agenda. Symbols of architectural, technological, and social aspirations, neighbourhoods and ensembles of Social Housing have nowadays begun to be appreciated by users and authorities, as a value being part of the current city. The obsolescence of these big complexes is determined on two different levels: the technical one (regarding comfort, such as thermal or acoustic, and the need for mechanical and safety improvements, as infrastructures, systems, elevators), and the functional one (involving space dimensions, organisation, orientation, and the introduction of new uses); all while complying with environmental demands following climate changes and current regulatory standards.
Today the main topics become centred on the question of how to keep these large structures alive, while meeting contemporary indoor and outdoor standards of comfort? Characterized by adventurous experiments in the use of new materials and techniques, green space creation and gender changes, the aim is to envisage the transformation necessary to assure the future of these complexes.
